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Show SIDELIGHTS ON HAPPENINGS IN THEATEROFWAR Correspondent of Interna tional News Tells How Band of Stragglers Laid an Ambuscade ENEMY MOWED DOWN WITH MACHINE GUNS Diary of a German Officer Who Believes It Is Ne cessary That the Teutons Lead (Spec al war d spatches of the Interna tonal Isews Serv ce and the London 1 n es ) EOUEN- feept 11 Noth ng but good news from the front The cream of the Br t sh army has suffered severely let ust as never n the h story of war fare has there been anyth ng 1 ke th s groat German retreat so too 3 the steady flow of stragglers f t and keen to f ght another day a refresh ng nov elt When a body of f fty Uhlans s r rende ed n the v n ty of Comp egne they were m a bad state hav ng been n th s ddle s x days The r mouths were drofp ng When we took the sad dies ofi the poor horses the r si n peeled off too We had to shoot them all One hussar told me there s every ground for hop ne that qu te l'SOOO of S r John French s present wounded and straggle s w 11 soon be m the f r ng 1 ne aga n Stragglers Set Trap Many hundreds of stragglers or ir re lars are g v ng a good account of themselves By Chant lly s xty of them men of all reg ments n ounted and n fantry la d a qu ck f re ambuscade for an oncom ng patrol of German ca airy The enemy was allowed to pas3 one Maxim g n concealed n a hedge and ride on to the muzzles of two others ahead Caught thus between two f res they were mo ed down n approved Teu ton e style The survivors we took as pr soners seemed m ghty glad they had fallen in to our hands They said the French would have k lied then I do not be 1 eve that but' I do know we had to r it them out afresh to sa e them fron the cold It 3 funny see g a German clad n khaki Dec dedly the straggler s a force to be reckoned w th ' German Officer s Diary V German off cer b d ary came into mv hands th ough a stravmg m ster man Tt makes nterest ng read ng at th stage afford a peep nto the Te tou so 1 The off cer n q est on s Second L c tenant Kle u of the I ourth n fantry regiment Wa worn and help less he was found n posse s on of the follow ng nterest ng art cles Two empty revolvers a d ary 100 in 1 ng 1 sh gold n a belt son e meat tablets and a booklet of adv ce fron the ka ser The date of the ope ng war entry n the d ar s s gn f cant It folio vs J ly 'O At last the lav To 1 ave 1 ved to. ee t We a e readv to let h n con e who may The world race (weltrasse) is dest ned to e Ger n an The next fe v days are g en o er en t rly to nobii zat on lot ngs of no gen eral nterest Working Smoothly August 1 E erjthng worl ng sr octhh August W e are at Made no selle Be g que s doo Y 11 she O) en or m st we burst ou way n? Aug st o O losses today before Lege hi e been fr ghtf 1 Isever n nd it s all allowel for Bos des tl e fallen a e only Pol sh be nners the sp 11 ng of whose blood w 11 sprea 1 the war lust a necessarv factor Wat t 11 wo put oui experts on to these deluded people August 11 And now for the Eng 1 sh used for f ght ng farmers Vor waerts mmer orwaerts! Ton ght W 11 an the Great has g ven ur beau t f ul ad ce 1o th nk each day of ou emperor Do not forget God lis maie tv shoul 1 reme nber that n th uk ng of h m we th nl of God for s ho not tho Aim ght s nst ment in th s glor ous f ght for tl e r ghtf Some Quotations The follow ng faesages n quotat on marks were ev deutl from some book L e tenant Kle n had read Teuto s are the s per race of the world Tljey ha e lone everything worth do ng and t s necessary for human tv that the Te ton race si all lead It s en lowed with the greatest power an 1 t ower s the one th ng in 1 fe worth possessing V gust 12 Th a s clearlj to be an art llery war Just as we all fore saw the nfantrv counts for noth ng Then followed th s quotation from N etzs he P ty s opposed to the ton c pas sons wh ch enhan e energy an 1 the feel ng of 1 fe Its act on a de press ng man lo ea ower when he o t es On the who e tv thwarti the law of development wh ch s the law of select on It preser ea that wh ch s r pe,for death It f ghts in favor of the useless and h nders progress of the useful |